taritai [V.2]

So, I’ve been pretty quiet…that’s because nothing’s been happening! Lulz.

I found a Salvage group but there’s much drama — picture FFXI Jim Crow laws. The group is sort of an offshoot of my current shell. Whereas the Salvage group is not attached to the shell in any way, 95% of their members are from this offshoot shell.

The leader of the offshoot shell and a member of the offshoot shell despise my current shell. You guys had bad blood? Fine. That’s not my problem. I’m a helpless server transfer. I don’t know about your bullshit history.

Now, the member of the offshoot shell took a liking to Raphen and I. Said we were on the ball, that we’re good team players, blah blah blah.

All of a sudden this weekend he doesn’t appreciate us being there. Why? Because of the blue pearl hanging over our head. We’re like dude, we don’t know your bullshit. Who stole whose bank, who stole whose members, who stole whose Linkshell name. To be honest, we really don’t give a fuck. It’s a fucking game.

“Oh, well you’re part of that shell and I hate them and I don’t want to gear them out so there”.

He was promptly ignored after that. I went to Salvage last night and the leader of the Salvage *group* said that our positions were pretty much up to him, and he liked us and we were official members and blah. The offshoot (I hate to call them that, but from the story they told me, they formed as a result of shit going down in Dark Static. I dunno. I heard the story late at night. Wuteva.) leader supposedly left but not before letting me know who’s boss when it comes to his vent (lulz?). Apparently I wasn’t getting off fast enough when we got teleported out of Salvage so he booted me with the reason stating “Salvage is over”.

I hate passive aggressive shit, so of course I told him it could have been done better. BUT APPARENTLY THAT DIDN’T SIT WELL WITH HIM? He gave me the toddler reason “well I dun care what you think so meh” AFTER admitting that he “THOUGHT” I was afk.

Seriously. Where do these players come from?

I’m just like. People. 2008. Video game? The fuck are you going to tell me next? ”Get to the back of the linkshell”? Jesus Christ.

But anyway.

We’ve been murdering a certain purple horse and certain huge ass turtle. D.feeted…what? Three times now? /HATE.

Ixion has been a bit more kind in terms of drops but lately he’s being stingy. Wtf at shoes only? WTF.

I is proud owner of Cloak and Cape. Thank you boys and girls of Dark Static~

Clearly I am the true Treasure Hunter in the group. Shit drops when I die! I get trampled at least twice and then MPKed at least once. I don’t think there’s been a fight where I haven’t died at least three times. People like to laugh at me ;;. It’s been said that I can’t get to the fight without dying in the first twenty minutes. And…sadly, that’s true. I really don’t know what this horse has against me. Actually forced me to go merit so now I’m 35k into level >:/

But anyway!

I did my first Odion on Saturday. I’ve had other opportunities but I either lost track of time while playing with Raphen or I wasn’t home. The fight was fun…getting stunned all the time while trying to get songs on my melee wasn’t though! We got a Dalmatica (congrats to Redcell) Z.mitts (grats to Hecatomb), Valhalla helm (forget who, someone in Ethereal) and Hadean hat (Kasa in Ethereal).

The true cause behind this post~

We went to Xarcabard last night and for once, those friggin mobs of doom were actually putting out! We were told to gather at Xarc and it was then, while on the phone with Raphen I muttered:

“Here we go, another AF-less Dynamis-Xarcabard”

“>_> I’m sure…something will drop.”

“…go, PUP”

So we entered, and started killing. I was asked to go on RDM – a rare thing indeed and helped with sleeping, refreshing the tank party, etc.

At one point I looked away to clean my nails I think. Raphen had run afk for a second to get something to eat and we were kill a few mobs in the most recent pull. I had just helped sleep shit so I took a moment to look after my cuticles >_>

I’m thinking, oh, his BLU head? But then I remembered, he had won that lot off of an earlier mob–a mob that did a double drop at that.

I looked at the screen and there in yellow letters:

You find a duelist’s chapeau on the BLAHBLAHDEMONTHINGER.

I’m sure I deafened Raphen after that. I couldn’t stop screaming and yelling “OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. IT DROPPED? IT ACTUALLY DROPPED!? IT DROPPED! OMG. DID IT DROP!?”

Everyone in LS was just as excited, OMG in caps were thrown around.

Now, Moonfrost got her hat. Anacrusis got his hat. According to Ana in an older conversation, I was third in line. Now, if you know me, I have no luck whatsoever. Nearly three years playing this game and my lots suck, my job interferes with attending certain events that I so badly want to attend–the list goes on. In my truly pessimistic fashion I thought—yeah, they’ll probably ninja someone in front of me or some shit and I won’t get it.

But Odion typed in ls chat “Jas”.

I was fucking frozen. Me. ME? I’m getting a coveted item?? ME? I know I’m not pimped out by any means as a RDM, but I do my best. There are quite a few items I need, but due to my old work schedule I could never attend the events to get them. (Now that my schedule has changed, I hope to rectify that). But ANYWAY.

After a minute, people were hassling me in /tell to lot. I lot a woping 300 or something. I forget. I was too busy going “OH MAH GOOOOOD”.

…then I disconnected.

lulz. I started freaking out and did my best to get back in. Luckily I was in maybe forty seconds before it dropped?

Jasdebi obtains a duelist’s chapeau.

ME BITCHES.

I didn’t want to wear it (lol just like when I first got manteel) becuase I was afraid it would disappear. I got a lot of shit for that but I didn’t care D: I was threatened in /tell, /say, /shout—Raphen logged me off at one point so he could put on the hat for me. lol.

Then SMN horn dropped and I got that as well! 5/5 SMN and 5/5 Duelist’s! (>< Not 75 SMN yet. Waiting on my YY robe before I complete it!)

I didn’t put on the RDM hat until I went to Salvage that night. Even my Salvage teammates congratulated me on obtaining it.

Many pictures were taken and I couldn’t decide which to post but…before I get to that.

Thank you so much Dark Static. Thank you everyone for killing shit, trying to MPK me (lulz), Odion and Ana for leading and taking us there, Erica for making me laugh when I couldn’t breathe (Bitch tried to kill me), Odion for listening to my madness, Raphen for hearing me squeal for two hours about how I got “mah hat!”. Thank you all soooooooo much!

Thank you for making a little Tarutaru happy! …I know I’ll never be getting another drop ever again, lulz. Wasted my luck that comes every decade on these two drops.

Well, hope you enjoyed the update! I’m quite a writer so sorry for the long ass post.

Long story short: Drama with Salvage group, Odin, Xarcabard (Duelist’s Chapeau and Summoner’s horn obtained!).

Thank you all again! Guess that’s it for now!

…oh who am I kidding, one more pic!

So I’m still working on a layout, promise.

What have I been up to in the mean time?

Well, I quit my job.

Yeah. I couldn’t take the “boss”–use this word loosely–anymore. I asked for an increase and in order to avoid giving it to me he wrote me up –basically a written form complaining to the company that administers my checks that I wasn’t performing to standards. Which is funny–seeing as how he went on and on about how great I was.

Suffice it to say, the write-up was a load of crock. All of it was a lie, and he expected me to sign it. I laughed in his face, basically. He was also hiring someone to take my place (while I was still there, mind you. And he did not inform me he was doing so) and was expecting me to train them. I confronted him on Monday about it–asked him if he was actually doing what I thought he was doing and he told me he’d talk to me about it “Later”.

Well, that wasn’t a “no” was it? So, I packed my bags, sent my letter of resignation at 5:30 PM (Our contract states that either one of us can terminate my employment at any time), saw him read it (I have access to his Outlook) and sat there as he said nothing to me, then left at 6:00 PM.

So, for the first time in my life, I left a job I couldn’t stand–a boss I couldn’t stand. It was a big hit to my pride–I never thought I’d ever have to do that in my life. But after a year of emotional, mental and physical stress for a guy that–no matter how hard I tried, I could not do my best for–I decided it was enough.

The future is up in the air. I’m nervous and anxious, but for the first time in a long time, I’m happy. I’m catching up on a year worth of lost sleep, I’m speaking to Mephiston more, people have remarked that I seem happier.

I have a job interview lined up for Friday for something actually in my field and I’m excited. It’s part-time, but the pay is delicious. If I get the position I’ll look for another part time job to accompany it. My gut says I won’t get it though (pessimistic). I surpass the education requirements–like, out of the ball park. But I’m lacking in the experience.

We’ll see how it goes!

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But, FFXI wise?

I’ve been running around with DarkStatic on Diabolos. It’s a small, competent shell made up of veterans. Most of the time I feel horribly out of place.  Lotting is based on your declaration of your main. Mephiston (now Raphen, on Diabolos) is seen as the LS dumpster because he pretty much gets everything that no one wants/already has. Things include some Limbus items, Dynamis AF2, Zeni drops..

Basically, we don’t go to an event and he doesn’t get something.

I’m happy he’s finally seeing the fruits of playing for like four years. I haven’t really gotten anything material from the shell yet. I did finally finish my BRD AF2 though and I’m one step closer to finishing my RDM AF2 after I received the Duelist’s tabard–thank you DarkStatic.

Although I have an extensive want list (we’re required to provide this to a sack holder/the ls leader), I don’t expect to get anything from it. We don’t really do the events that will yield those things I want, so I’m basically running from place to place and doing things that yield items/results for the melee. Such is life, yes?

Did quite a bit of sea farming over the past two weeks. People got stuff (including Raphen).

Some Jailer pops. Including a Love which of course popped an Absolute Virtue which proceeded to have its way with us.

But–

As I mentioned before, everything is for the melee. We fight this for the melee to get this drop. They fight that to get this for the melee. And you know? As much as I love/d bard, I’m tired of being the song bitch. No one wants to fight what I need to make myself better–so…why not try a melee job for the hell of doing something new? Maybe I’d like it.

The result:

Meet Chiako. A Rank 5 Bastokan Mithra. Right now, I’m not sure exactly what she’ll be. It looks like her first 75 will be DRK. Most likely followed by MNK. She’s leveling with Raphen’s DRK and many a party has complained about us taking hate and killing things–which is why I start my own parties and power level with Jasdebi.

She’s a slow learner. Lol, no matter how hard I try, I can never get her scythe within a couple of levels of its cap. Don’t know why it takes her forever…but yeah. She’s as dumb as a nail when it comes to skilling up.

Raphen and I are having probably too much fun leveling the job. We’re a weird couple–

“HA. YOU JUST MISSED VORPAL SCYTHE. LULZ”

“…shut up bitch!”

or

“Rofl, what the fuck was that? I hope that wasn’t a buffed WS.”

“>:/ I hate you!”

Have I mentioned how much I hate these birds? It’s weird being in a fight from a melee stand point. It’s especially hard dual boxing Jas too. Most of the time I’m looking at her screen making sure Raphen doesn’t get himself killed with all his crit merits.

It’s been a lot of fun. I’ve been neglecting Jasdebi because it’s been so much fun hacking things to pieces. lol, I’m eventually going to have to focus on her again. Her EXP on RDM is dwindling. >_>

But see! I promised an update and here it is!

Once again - ahoy, hello, bom dia, buenos dias, and etc.

If you’ve been visiting this page (all two of you) and basically going– “wtf? She hasn’t updated in like FOREVER”–then you’re somewhat correct.

I’ve been updating my livejournal at taritai…but even then, I’ve started slacking on that. I’ve felt horrible that Jowah was nice enough to give me my little slice of internet heave and I haven’t been using it. So I decided I’d be a bit more strict when it comes to updating my corner on souleater.org.

I really liked this theme, and rather than be all secretive about it (because that’s not how I roll) I’ll be editing as I go along while I work on my own personalized version. I’ve deleted all of my old posts because well..they were quite old, and I’m quite done with all those things of the past–I’m quite anti-nostalgic.

I had a huge plan to put up pictures and the like for my awesome “comeback”, but you know, whatever

Just to mention a few updates that don’t need pictures:

1. I’ve left the Shiva server and now reside on Diabolos.

2. I’m in the linkshell “Dark Static”

3. I’m, yet again, dissatisfied with my current position. I can’t make Limbus, I can’t make weekday Einherjar, I can barely make weekday Dynamis and…other than that, we don’t do anything.

D: That’s about it. I’m also no longer “Taritai”, but I’m now “Jasdebi”. I’ve kind of tossed her to the side in favor of a side project I am working on. Maybe I’ll give some updates on that when I get a hold of some pictures.